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The Scottsboro Trials based on the false accusations of nine black boys raping two white girls. The problem started when the nine were riding the frieght train from Channatoga to Memphis. A fight broke out between some white boys and a few of the nine. When the train arrived in Alabama it was stopped and the boys were all arrested for assault.The names of the nine were Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Roy Wright, Andy Wright, Willie Robeson, Charles Weems, Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery,and Eugene Williams. There were also two women riding the train along with the Scottsboro nine there names were Ruby Bates and a prosititute named Victoria Price. the first three boys were acccused of raping Ms. Ruby Bates, and the last six were accused of raping Ms. Victoria Price. The boys had two lawyers Stephen Roddy and Milo Moody. Stephen was an, "unpaid and unprepared" real-estate agent who was no where near ready to become a laywer so suddenly. the other was Milo who was an older man of about 70. He was a very forgetful person, though the only trained attourney on the case. there were 4 trials total and in the end all nine of the boys were conviceted with gang rape and sentenced to death. The youngest of the nine Roy Wright was almost freed of the death sentence and would've been charged with a life sentence in prison but this was out ruled by the jury. //- Amber A.//



The Scottsboro case was one of the most important cases of the civil rightd movement in the U.S. It consisted of several court cases that lasted almost seven years during the 1930's. These cases were focused on the problems of blacks in the South. Many think that the Scottsboro cases started the civil rights movement.

In 1931 in Scottsboro, several teen-agers, some black and some white, were hitching rides on a train. a fight broke out between the blacks and the whites. The whites accused nine blacks of raping two white women. The nine blacks were soon known as the "Scottsboro boys." Eight were sentenced to death.

Alabama officials refused to drop the case. A new trial for one of the defendants, Haywood P. Patterson, began in 1933 in Decatur. The case had attracted national attention, and many believed the Scottsboro boys to be victims of racial prejudice. The communist party a famous non-communist attorney, Samuel S. Leibowitz, to represent Patterson. One of the two supposed rape victims retracted her testimony during the trial.

By 1950, four of those convicted were paroled. The fifth escaped to Michigan, where the governor refused to surrender him to Alabama officials. - //Gunoo H//




 * The Scottsboro Trial contains two women that were supposed to be raped and there names are Rudy Bates and Victoria Price. Rudy Bates was born in Borne Terre, Montana and lived in Lorain for ten yrs. She had worked in a penny factory. She was a member of many clubs such as Pythian sisters. She had a husband Harold, two sisters Ceil and Arnez, daughter Marion, and two sons Edgar and Harry. She also had 20 grand children and 10 great grand children.**

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